Welcome to the Connecting with Self meditation.
Allowing your body to settle into a comfortable position.
Being awake and alert for this meditation.
Perhaps even closing your eyes or lowering your gaze.
Inviting a wave of relaxation through the body.
From the crown of your head down to the soles of your feet.
And as a way of settling,
Taking three satisfying and fulfilling breaths.
Relaxing,
Softening and letting go.
Dropping beyond the thinking mind into the feeling body.
Being drawn to your feeling center.
So coming to a place in your body.
Accessing a felt sense of your body.
Tuning into that place in your body where you can feel.
Beyond the mind and tuning into the felt sense of the body.
Coming home and opening the space to feel.
Dropping beyond any thoughts and feeling into this feeling space.
This feeling center.
Attending to this space to feel.
Taking a moment to breathe out any resistance or any tension,
Any stress.
Allowing yourself to open to feel.
Coming to that place,
Your feeling center.
Generally that's somewhere on the torso,
Around the chest or the heart,
The belly.
Anywhere where you feel a sense of tuning into your felt sense of the body.
How are you feeling right now?
Breathing in and opening to any emotions or feelings that are present.
Opening to what is arising.
Opening to what is here.
Being very patient,
Not forcing feelings.
Opening and being present to feelings.
If a feeling is present are you able to give it a name?
It doesn't matter if you can't.
Sometimes it's hard to know feelings.
So you can be aware of that,
Dropping any judgment.
Allowing yourself to be curious as you explore the physical sensations in your feeling center.
Perhaps there might be a sense of heaviness or lightness,
Numbness,
Vibration or any other physical sensation best described by you and felt by you.
Resting in whatever emotions and sensations you are experiencing right now.
Choosing an attitude of acceptance and patience.
Very patiently creating some space to feel.
Giving yourself permission to draw closer to your feeling center.
Noticing if there's any tightness or resistance.
Taking time to come into relationship with yourself as you are.
Breathing out and letting go of anything that may close you,
That may close you off from feeling.
And now asking yourself this question.
What do I appreciate the most about myself?
What are my strengths?
The qualities.
The qualities that I know that I truly have that I believe.
What are the words you need to hear from others?
I love you.
You are worthy.
Great job.
Wishing yourself well and adding more words,
More truths.
Bathing and savouring yourself in these words,
These qualities of who you truly are.
And silently whisper to yourself,
May I be happy.
May I be at ease.
May I be safe.
And may I be free from stress no matter what I have been given.
Using these moments to keep breathing into your feeling center and expanding this feeling out in all directions.
Knowing that each time you practice opening to feelings and emotions,
A new space is opened.
Trust in this unfolding process.
Holding the intention of loving kindness towards yourself as you move through your day or evening.
As you remain seated,
Balanced,
Centered and connected to yourself.
Holding this presence.
The qualities of who you truly are.
Saying your name followed by I love you.
And repeating this.
Your name,
I love you.
And embed it into your heart,
Into your presence by placing your hand on your heart and repeating,
I love you.
And now becoming more aware of the sounds around you.
Taking some fulfilling breaths.
Feeling the sensations of your seat.
The space in the room.
The rhythm of your body breathing.
As I end this meditation with the sound of the three bells.
